Our body is often only a reflection and not the cause of the feelings that we experience. My weight was a perfect symbol of all my feelings I carried with me since early childhood. I always had the impression that I was somehow wrong and I never felt I was part of something. I was always isolated. The more I struggled to fit in, the heavier I became. It was only when I began to tackle my inner conflicts directly and solve them, instead of making myself "fit" through diets, that I found a way to permanently lose weight.